Takedown camp stove



Nov. 20 1923. 1,474, 45

A. w.' STEEN TAKEDOV VN CAMP STOVE Filed Sept. 5. 1922 Inventor; Axel 74 Steen,

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i Application filed September To all whom it concern:

Be it known that I, AXEL W. a citizenofthe United States,.residing at I Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles 7 I and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Takedown Camp Stoves, of which the followinggis a.

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specification. My invention relates to stoves, and partic.

ularly to take down stoves adapted forsuch purposes as camping. My objects are, first,

to provide a stove that may readily be taken apart and re-assembled without the us of bolts, screws or similar devices; and, second,

' to furnish a construction that when taken Figure 1 is a perspective view of the entire device; Figure 2 is an elevation of one of the sides, of which there are two exactly alike but used as right and left; Figure 3 is an end elevation ofthis same part; Figure 4 is a plan viewof the top of the stove; Figure 5 is an elevation of the edge of the last named piece; Figure 6 is an elevation of the back end piece of the stove; and Figure 7 i an elevation of the frontend piece. Figures 8 and 9 illustrate the folding smoke stack when unfolded and readyto ship; Figure 8 being a plan view, and Fig. 9 an elevation of th -bottom end of this construction. I

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the se'veral views.

' The side pieces 1 are each provided with a bottom flange 2; with a pair of vertical slots 3 close to each of their end edges; and with a pair ofhorizontal slots 4 close to their top edges. g The top piece 5 is provided with cooking holes 6 and with a rectangular smoke,

stack hole 7. It also has four tenons 8, pot welded t9 it under The e STEEN,

5,1922; SerialNo."586,144.j

tenons are of j suchdimensions, andfthey are so located, that they areadapted to engage the horizontal slot 4 near the upper.

edges of side pieces 1. 1 j

Back end piece 9, and front I end piece 10; arefeach provided with two pairs of vertically notched tenons 11, adjacent their These are spot welded to their inner surfaces and are of such dimensions, and solocated, as to allowtheni to enter the vertical slots3 of the side-"pieces; -Whenthus positioned a downward movement of p the .end pieces will result in the: tenon bottom edges of their notches engaging the respective slots. p v r The top, sides, and ends of the stove are assembled and locked in position inthe man ner just indicated. A convenient procedure r is to first assemble these parts in the po-sition shown dotted in Fig; 1. The disengaged end of the front piece-is then lifted, and tenons 11 are made to enter their respective slots 3. The front piece is then pushed down and this looks the parts in place. To disassemble, the procedure just described is reversed. 7 No stove bottom ordinarily is required, and the device sets directly upon the ground with its weight supported by bearing 8'5 flanges 2. The front nd is preferablymade with a large opening 12, for the introduction of fuel, and through whichthe necessary draft is maintained.

The rectangular smoke stack is constructed of four flat strips of shee't metal, continuously hinged together, side by side, 1n the manner shown'in Figs 8 and 9. at 13. One

of the outer. strips 14 is provided with a pair of longitudinally notched tenon-s 15. e pair of correspondingly longitudinal slots f 1 i p 17. These tenons andslotsmay be mutually The other outerstrip- 16 isprovided witha engaged: by slightly springing thejlparts when the several strips have been swung into the rectangular flboxlike form off the smoke stack as'shown' in Fig. 1.

The four strips of the stack are of suba stantially the same length, butouter strips 14 and intermediate strips 18 have their bottom ends turned outwardly to form supporting flanges as at 19. This leaves strips 16' and 20 extending beyond the two others at the bottom, as shown at 21. 1

Extensions 21 are adapted to enter the smoke hole 7 and to position the stack on,

, the stove. The Weight of the stack Will be supported by 'fianges 19. The continuous hinges 13 serve to close the joints between the strips, and thus make the stack tight and a capable of maintaining the draft Having thus fully described tion, I claim: 7 p

1, A take down stove having its side and end plates surrounding its top plate; said end plates engaging said side plates by means'of vertically notched tenons, and said top plate engaging said side plates by means of plain tenons. 4

2. A five part take down stove having its my invenside and end plates surrounding its top plate; said end plates engaging said side plates by means of vertically notched tenons,

and said top plate engaging said side plates by means of plain tenons; said side plates having bottom supporting flanges thereon.

.3. A take ClOWVIlStOVG having tenon jointed 7 sides, ends, and top; anda multiangular sectioned smoke stack comprising longitudinally hinge ointed' strips the unhinged terminal pair of which are sprung engaged by means of notched tenonse 4. A take down stove having tenon jointed outwardly turned bearing flanges at corre spending end of an opposed pair. of said strips.

AXEL W. STEEN. 

